company news

  • June 2009 - Rotary Feedthroughs RD16 and RDP40
    Two new rotary drives, a DN16CF miniature rotary and a high precision, heay duty rotary drive are extending our product line .

  • May 2009 - Underwood Grating Spectrometer delivered to SOLEIL
    In collaboration with Pierre et Marie Curie University an X-Ray Spectrometer was designed and built at Ferrovac. The System was delivered in may and will be subsequently tested during this year.

  • Sept 2008 - 1st prototype of new Mott-Polarimeter MOTT-150-2 installed at ETH
    After the redesign of our classical Mott-Polarimeter the fist prototype was sucessfully installed to a test setup at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. Performance tests are currently running, the preliminairy results look very promising.

  • Mai 2007 - On the move again
    Ferrovac moves to an industrial site in Zurich Oerlikon: The Oerlikerhus. As the Ferrovac team of engineers and administrative staff is constantly growing, more space is required in general. Lab and assembly facilities are greatly improved.

  • April 2007 - 2nd UHV Sample Preparation System for Elmitec PEEM installed at BESSY
    After three years of sucessful use at the Swiss Light Source, a second, identical UHV sample preparation System for the Elmitec-PEEM was installed at BESSY GmbH in Berlin.

  • Mai 2005 - 5-Axis Nanopositioning System for Zone Plate Microscope
    In cooperation with the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, the APE-Beamline of ELETTRA and the company Attocube Systems, a 5-axis positioning system for the relative positioning and scanning of a Fresnell lens and order shield aperture with nanometer precision is developed. The system will be used for spatially resolved photoemission and related experiments at the APE-Beamline of the ELETTRA synchrotron in Trieste.

  • March 2004 - UHV Sample Preparation System for Elmitec PEEM
    An ultra high vacuum system was designed to extend the sample preparation methods of the Photoelectron Emission Microscopes (PEEM) manufactured by Elmitec.

  • June 2003 - New design office and laboratory
    Ferrovac moves to its new company site: Ferrovac GmbH, Winterthurerstrasse 457, CH-8051 Zurich.

  • November 2002 - Sample holders, forks and sample carriers
    A complete set of accessories for sample manipulation has been developed.
    Rotateable sample carring platforms, forks, sample holder blocks and heating stages are readyly available.
    Please contact us for detailed informations.
  • July 2001 - portable uhv load-lock
    Increasing interest for a solution to transport and store samples under uhv conditions has led to the development of the VK40 portable load-lock. Please visit our new web pages.

  • Zurich, March 2001 - New website launched
    Ferrovac introduces new website with online product information and download of specsheets.